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Letterbook including letters from [Francis Aird (c.1602-1659), minister of Dalserf]
Fonds
Identifier: MS LET
Scope and Contents
Volume containing a collection of letters written in different hands dated from 1652-59. Some of the letters are possibly written by Francis Aird, minister of Dalserf.
Letters written in secretary hand and are bound in leather with a metal clasp. There are additional inscriptions on front and back fly leaves, as well as a stamp from General Assembly Library on the manuscript title page.
Dates:
1652-1659
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Letterbook of Dr James Arthur
Fonds — Volume: Dk.5.20
Identifier: Coll-2196
Scope and Contents
Letterbook of Dr James Arthur, Deputy Inspector General of Hospitals, containing copies and drafts of letters about his nephew William John MacKnight Craufurd of Cartsburn, Sir James McGrigor, private legal business, etc. Also satirical verses on Cardinal Wiseman. 1850.
Dates:
1850
Letterbook of Hugh Miller (1802-1856), geologist and editor of ‘The Witness’
Fonds
Identifier: MS MIL1
Scope and Contents
MS MIL 1.1Volume containing handwritten holograph copies of 232 letters between Hugh Miller and a number of correspondents from 1825 to 1839. Correspondents include William Ross, John Swanson, George Anderson, Robert Carruthers, Mrs. Dunbar of Boath, the Duke of Wellington, Thomas Dick Lauder, the Very Reverend Principal Baird, and others. There are also a number of poems and a few drawings throughout. Two letters in an envelope to Dr. Mitchell Hunter from Henry...
Dates:
1825-1839; 1995
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Letters (1973-1982) from Hamish Henderson to Michael Sharp
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1264
Identifier: Coll-1492
Scope and Contents
1 x letter - from Henderson, on School of Scottish Studies headed paper, to Sharp - 15 July 1973 - Content on: having 'fractured my elbow a month ago'; plans to go 'up to Aberdeenshire today to do some recording'; and, possible meeting with Sharp 'on Saturday or Sunday' and 'the Staff Club for a drink'.
1 x letter - from Henderson, on School of Scottish Studies headed paper, to Sharp - 26 July 1973...
Dates:
1973-1982
Letters and material relating to Thomas Campbell (1777-1844), the Poet
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1176
Scope and Contents
Items relating to the poet, Thomas Campbell, include:
- - letter, 22 February 1834, to Francis Jeffrey, the Lord Advocate, writing that he is thinking about competing for the position of chair of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres at Edinburgh University, at shelfmark E2009.18
- - letter, undated fragment, at shelfmark Dc.3.99/13, f.7
Dates:
1834
Letters and notebooks of Dr. Henry Lonsdale, of Rosehill, Carlisle
Fonds — Container: CLX-A-1582
Identifier: Coll-1820
Content Description
This collection contains two sets of material:1. Letters to Dr. Lonsdale, of Rosehill, Carlisle, and addressed variously to: Cumberland Infirmary; Marine Crescent, Waterloo, Liverpool; Playhouse Yard, Thomas Street, Scarbro'; and, Teviot Row, Edinburgh. The letters show that he was assembling information with a view to overseeing a biography of his mentor, John Reid. The collection of letters contains material which would have formed the core of such a work which never came to...
Dates:
1830s-1868
Letters and sermons of James Renwick (1662-1688), Scottish Covenanter, and others
Fonds
Identifier: MS REN
Scope and Contents
Two manuscript notebooks.MS REN 1.1:Composite volume of letters, written 3 October 1682 - 29 December 1687. Letters copied in rather than autograph copies, potentially from a Mr. Heid. Pagination resets after page 183, with an index that correlates letters in this volume with that of Mr Heid's. A note on p.183 reads:
'Written for Mr John McMain. October 10, 1723'The majority of letters are authored by James Renwick, but not...
Dates:
1649-1723
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Letters donated by Helen Macnicol from Edward Irving; Samuel Martin; and Marcus Dods
Fonds
Identifier: MS BOX 9.2
Scope and Contents
See External Documents (below) for details.
Dates:
1793-1875
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Letters donated by Sophy Hall to Henry Duncan and papers relating to Edward Irving’s charge of heresy
Fonds
Identifier: MS BOX 9.3
Scope and Contents
See External Documents (below) for details.
Dates:
1831-1840, 1940
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Letters from Arthur Koestler to Kenneth Cohen and "Anita"
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-375
Identifier: Coll-1884
Scope and Contents
Three signed letters from Arthur Koestler to Kenneth Cohen, one of which contains a copy of a letter from Koestler to a woman named "Anita". The letters sent to Cohen relate mainly to this "Anita" and her situation after the selling of her coffee shop, to Koestler's trip in Austria in 1969, and to this book The Scum of the Earth. The letter to Anita relates to the sale of her coffee shop, to the RUSI Journal, to the preface of the Danube...
Dates:
1969-1972